The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1887-07-01
NEW YORK NOTES.
Walk Down the Bowery-Ceneral Park.
SF Worlds Fair.
Especial Correspondence

A Walk Down the Bowery-Ceneral Park.
8 @ Worlds Fair.
sS Especial Correspondence
NEW YORK, June %.
!, A walk around New York is full as inspirit-
ing as the triple circuit Doesticks made around
Rhode Island before breakfast. It is also
nearly as extensive. But what strikes one
most as he goes into various parts of this great
city is that it is SO various. We have been
told that there are more Irishmen in New
York than in Dublin, more Germans than in
Berlin, and so on; and now, it is said, the
Cinnamon who are in excess on the Pacific
sscoast are enigrating here rapidly from that
quarter to add to our already ample supply
of Asiatics But began to say something
about walks; and one that took the
other day was through typical part of the
Bowery. This street was once one of the most
noted cow paths on this primitive island. l
remember hearing very old man say when I
was little boy that he when he was little
boy) drove his fathers cows home at night
over this road. And he said. "If my father
had only kept the farm, instead of selling it'll"
What fortune, to be sure, he would have
hadi
It is now, in its way, more lively and ami
mated than Broadway. 1t is, in fact, a
broader street than Broadwayis. Its Bowery
theatre is noted feature, and one Of the old
est in town. You do not, to be sure, get
very elevated performance there; but it
pleases a certain stratum, and will amuse
cultivated man for once to see what it is that
alnuses so many of his fellow mortals II he
has the Germans taste for beer, he can have
beer and cigars, such as they are, in his seat.
This theatre has been burned down by acci-
dent three times; and I knew a gentleman
not now living-a country merchant who
needed to come to the city to buy his goods
who happened in town just in time to see its
incineration in each of the three instances.
49,
Nowhere as in the Bowery does the cheap
show and museum so much flourish; and no
where, as it seems to me, is there such
solemn, depressing joy. Circassian girls,
genuine or initiated, few Gagged animals
(chefly monkeys, bearded or fat woman,
O few sleepy snakes and fifteen or twenty
cosmoramic views of no real merit are
about the substance that each museum gives
except little jingiing music from band or
piano, with a dreary stage performance an.
nexed. But these things continue to draw
from the poorer classes-possibly because
they cost, any one of them, only few cents.
Here and Oh the Third avenue are genuine
specimens of the bier halle as you see it ON
the Rhine. I recall one of those I entered
with ministerial friend the other evening.
You can get anything to eat which any large
German city furnishes there, and you will
see the walls of the main hall illustrated with
real art. and by series of most effective
pictures in Oil running completely around it,
interspersed with or surrounded by any num-
ber of passages from the best German poets.
At place like this you will find the people
assembled Immediately well dressed, the
dude as he appears in Berlin not at all incon-
spicuous. 1t goes without saying that, as the
whole group, except few casuals like my
self and friend, were Germans, their wives
and daughters and sisters were all there
amid the flowing beer and wine, without the
slightest disorder occurring.
49, ...
In the Central park you need to walk more
than once to see all the classes that turn out
On Saturday afternoon, the new half holi-
day, on Sundays and on other holidays, you
see the laboring class in the great majority.
The most exhilarating part of the mark on
these occasions is "the common which is
large meadow, and which endless groups of
children, as thick as daisies in field addicted
to them, occupy for their rolls and plays and
pranks. On these occasions grown people
can 60 upon the forbidden grass at this point
and stroll about without fear of the police
man, who is himself there. Though the SER
wants in charge of the children are numerous,
it is surprising to see the small youngsters
who stroll there without guides, and in some
cases possibly without permission. But no
harm seems to result from this. In some way
they inquire-ss two little girls did of me,
separately-and find their way home. To
see the more elegant equipages Of the rich,
take other days than those for your visits,
but at no time is the pretty scene of the
children on "the common" absent.
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I hear that the talk is once more revived
of great worlds fair at the beginning of
the next decade, in 1890. A good number of
influential people favor it; the newspapers
and hotels and stores would profit by it, and
there is no one to object. So lido not see
why it may not be expected. New York, it
will be remembered, had the second worlds
fair that was ever held.* Its site was near
the old reservoir, ON what is now called
Bryant's PARK, on the corner of Forty
street and Sixth avenue. But no such space
would suffice for one now. After the gran
deur of the Philadelphia centennial exhibi-
tion it will require no small effort to keep up
the climax that will be necessary and ex-
pected. But it can be done if the right men
take it in hand. 1t will be different
New York-with its many elevated roads
and with, perhaps, its two or more Brooklyn
bridges then-which the world will come to
see, than that which before the war was
visible here thirty-fve years ago; how
different only those who stroll about the city
now can even family imagine.
JOEL BENTON.
The first one was that given at Hyde Park,
near London, in 1851.